These articles
represent an attempt to define and explain some political and economic
trends that have occurred over the last thirty years and accelerated
in the first years of the 21st century. They are writings by academics,
economists, journalists, and myself concerning media, the environment,
war, law, and a tendency toward corporatism. They explore whether these
trends have become irreversibly accepted and institutionalized.
Paul
Krugman, recipient of 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
Naomi Klein - four articles on
economics, war and disaster
Four
by me - economics, money, the corporatocracy, and Orwell
More
by me - Memory, Dreams, Shakespeare, Jung, and archetypes
Health
care proposals and debates:
Principles
of Health Care Reform
The
Logic of the Health Care Debate
Structuring
Health Insurance - Quality, Cost & Risk Assessments
Commentaries
articulating political trends:
Barry
Beck - The Corporatocracy
Naomi
Wolf - The End of America
The
Influence of Conservative Think Tanks
Bradley
- Conservatives after 1964
The
Project for a New American Century
Faith-based verses reality-based judgments:
Suskind
- reality vs. faith-based thinking - Without a Doubt
Hari
- Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
Blumenthal
- Republican Gomorrah
Distortions of language for manipulation:
Barry
Beck - Orwell Today
Leo
Strauss and the Noble Lie
George
Lakoff - Don't Think of an Elephant (first chapter)
George
Lakoff - Thinking Points (first and second chapters)
Noam
Chomsky - Rulers & the ruled: Dangerous disconnect
Harold
Pinter - Art, Truth, and Politics
Why
the Media Can Legally Lie
ECONOMICS
J.
M. Keynes explained by Paul Krugman
J.
M. Keynes explained by Paul Krugman (more simplified)
J.
M. Keynes - Economic Possibilities
Modern
relevance of Keynes
Paul
Krugman - False arguments against economic action
Paul
Krugman - Trade and Wages
Paul
Krugman - Microeconomics
Paul
Krugman - Thirty Year Economic Decline
Naomi
Klein - the first year of Iraqi occupation
Naomi
Klein - the rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi
Klein - the Wall Street Crisis
Naomi
Klein - Alan Greenspan debate
Principles
of Macroeconomics
New
Keynesian Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Review
Ten
Trillion Dollars - the price for eight years
Barry
Beck - Discourse on Money, Finance, and Investment
Barry
Beck - Thoughts on Economic Theories
Barry
Beck - The Corporatocracy
Barry
Beck - Orwell Today
Natasha
Roccaforte on Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed
Barbara
Ehrenreich articles
David
C. Korten - When Corporations Rule
Noam
Chomsky - Notes on NAFTA and Adam Smith
Elizabeth
Warren - Bailout Watchdog
Elizabeth
Warren - The Woman Who Knew Too Much
Amartya
Sen - Adam Smith's market never stood alone
Kevin
Phillips - Bad Money
Warren
Buffett - Trade Deficit - Squanderville vs. Thriftville
William
Greider - Bailout of Wall Street
Bailout
Analysis - Advantages, Disadvantages, Alternatives
New
Trade Theory
Douglas
K. Foley - Notes on the
Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy
Ha-Joon
Chang - Bad Samaritans:
The Myth of Free Trade & the Secret History of Capitalism
Thirty
Year Economic Recession
Primer
on Subprime Mortgages
The
Economics of QWERTY
Complexity
Economics
Federal
Reserve Board Policy and Business Activity
PHILOSOPHY,
PSYCHOLOGY, and ARCHETYPES
Barry
Beck - A Jungian Analysis of Shakespeare's Tempest
Barry
Beck - Ancient Archetypes and
Modern Manifestations
Barry
Beck - The Art and Science of Memory
Barry
Beck - Implications of Cyberspace on Our Collective Reality
Barry
Beck - Computer Technology and Terminology
Barry
Beck - Carl Jung and The Undiscovered Self
Barry
Beck - Lucid Dreaming
Doctor
Faustus - Thomas Mann
Dream
Story (Traumnovelle) - Arthur Schnitzler
Country
of the Blind - H. G. Wells
Bertrand
Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
Plato
in the Light of Yoga
Noam
Chomsky - Language and Mind
Naomi
Klein - No Logo - The Triumph of Identity Marketing
John
Maynard Keynes - Pure Induction
Earliest
Photograph of a Person - 1838
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